Comments on: No Likey the Matchy Matchy

By: DragonLady

DragonLady — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:10:58 +0000

Nick is fine. He is very busy playing drama queen and living up to all the stereo- types. He has really turned it up quite a bit. All of his friends are asking him to tone it down a bit but he has met several new guys because of the publicity. Nick is a happy boy (age 22). His friends are not happy though. I gave him a long lecture on safety vs being out and I don’t think he heard a word. *sigh* I hope he lives to 32. Cops like him so they are stopping by more often.

By: anita

anita — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:42:03 +0000

e2tc–> Without doing research, I believe you’re right about equal rights in Finland (and in other parts of Scandinavia) for same sex couples as well as unmarried straight couples.

Esther–>I’m a photo bug so you can be sure of it, and yes, from your hopes to God’s ears!

DragonLady–> I’m taking it from what you wrote, and I hope it’s the case, that Nick is going to make a full physical recovery from being assaulted. I’m so sorry to hear it happened for whatever reason. I lived in a college town for four years and worked right near campus just off fraternity row… I’m convinced that testosterone and beer can be about as combustive as dynamite and an open flame. Sigh.

By: DragonLady

DragonLady — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:05:14 +0000

Oh sorry I already marched several times in my head and didn’t check the date. All the college students are back and causing mayhem in the neighborhood. The cute little gay guy at 7/11 got beaten up by some thugs because he wouldn’t sell them beer without ID. It is being called a hate crime. So if beating up Nick while calling him a fag is a crime that deserves special punishment, he should also have the same civil rights as the thugs!

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:58:44 +0000

Hope you will post the photos! And I really, really hope this proposition is defeated.

By: e2tc

e2tc — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:27:36 +0000

anita -> I have a friend (straight) who is not a citizen of Finland, but was involved in a long-term partnership with a Finnish man. (She lived there at the time.) AFAIK, they also had an unmarried “partner” status that allowed them legal protections, health benefits, the whole 9 yards. (As if they had been married.) It seems fair – and ethical – to me to allow this for any couples (gay or straight). But I would have to ask her to be doubly sure about what, exactly, they were entitled to under the law.

By: anita

anita — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:42:35 +0000

Hey Girl–> It’s coming up this next Sunday morning. The matching shirts have arrived and the batteries on the camera are charged up. I’m ready!

By: DragonLady

DragonLady — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:48 +0000

Registered Partnerships would be cool for me!

Anita how did that march go?

By: anita

anita — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:57:35 +0000

DragonLady–> While it must have been an incredible amount of work for you to get all those records in the official records, I really do applaud you for looking out for yourself like that and going to whatever measures are necessary for your protections. I just wish it could be different for the two of you and so many others like you and until that day, we just need to keep walking and working in that direction.

Yep. God is love seems a little obvious and yet so many seem so clueless and the only way I can get around those who seem to demonstrate so little of it is that they’ve failed to ever truly experience it for themselves.

e2tc–>I would feel that anything that would move same sex couples to greater equality under the law would be a step in the right direction.

By: e2tc

e2tc — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:04:11 +0000

Just curious: how would you feel about the kind of setup used in some Scandinavian countries, where both gay and straight couples can have the same benefits/rights as married couples even if they're not legally "married"? (Like Finland, for example.)

By: DragonLady

DragonLady — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:22:13 +0000

I have all the paperwork already done and on record at most of the hospitals within a 60 mile radius, at the doctor’s offices that I see (and most are in fairly large practices) on my refrigerator and in the pocket on the back of my wheelchair.

I did have a lawyer but he died last Dec. and I just didn’t think about getting another one until after i got hit by a car in June. Suddenly I need a lawyer of record again. I have one to represent me in the court case against the guy who hit me but his health is just as fragile as mine so I can’t count on him being alive if and when the need arises. It’s really the medical issues and insurance that concern me most right now. I had to lie on some papers and say that Dunkan was my sister at the advise of my attny. So I do know what you mean when you say that it makes you sick to check single on legal documents. Frank said that the lie was the best we could do unless or until the law is changed.

Separation of church and state is also a lie unless it involves a Nativity scene on government property. That guy yells about that too. He thinks that it is unconstitutional to ban the Nativity scene at the State Capital. I have no respect for him and will not name him in case google bots see it.

And then there is Fred from Kansas who comes here every year to celebrate Matthew’s murder. He will be here in just over a month shouting hate in the Name of Jesus. Do they not know that God is love? *sigh*

Oh well, I am going to try to focus on how cool all the mounted cops are when he is in town. The cops only mount up routinely during the rodeo and for Fred’s yearly visits. And maybe I will go spam up your forum some more. Sometimes it is the brightest spot in my day. I learned there that bears poop in the forest but that they don’t have rolls of toilet paper mounted on the trees. That really made me laugh.